Tag: Motivation

Devotionals

Motivating One Another          

Loring Schultz

“Let us think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works.” Hebrews 10:24 NLT

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The United States has an estimated 40,000 motivational speakers. Speaking as a professional rakes in quite a bit of money. It is a very lucrative position if you possess the skills to enthuse and motivate people in your area of expertise. There are a variety of categories broken into business, entrepreneurship, leadership, health and fitness, athletics, education, among others. They are also broken down at times by age groups and gender within each category. Motivational speakers seek to inspire and courage people challenging them to  establish goals and be the best they can be in a desired area. The speaker’s goal is to move you into action. To stir you up to accomplish your goal.

The writer of the book of Hebrews encourages every Christian to be a motivational speaker by stirring up one another to love and good works in Hebrews10:24. This takes thought on how to do this. We are to consider or think of ways to motivate our Christian brothers and sisters. First of all, we can’t motivate anyone if we don’t know anything about them. We need to get to know each other, and that comes from being with each other. The next verse says, “And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of his return is drawing near.” (Heb.10:25 esv) The more we meet together with other Christians the more we get to know each other and we’ll know how to motivate one another.

We may not get rich with our motivational speaking presentations in this life, but people will be changed for the better as Christ’s love and good works are on display by the church community. As a church family, each will be encouraged as we meet together in the presence of the Lord with plenty of opportunity to motivate one another.

Devotionals

Whole Heart and a Willing Mind

Loring Schultz

“And Solomon, my son, learn to know the God of your ancestors intimately. Worship and serve him with your whole heart and a willing mind. For the LORD sees every heart and knows every plan and thought. If you seek him, you will find him. But if you forsake him, he will reject you forever.” 1 Chronicles 28:9 NLT

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It is not always easy to get motivated. There are times when you just don’t feel like doing anything. It could be caused by emotions or in my case the body won’t let me respond as it should, I think they call it ‘not being as young as I used to be.’ But once I get going, I’m good.

Not being motivated to worship and serve God has nothing to do with how old or young you are. It does happen, and there are many reasons for lack of motivation for God. There are many things that get in the way and distract us daily. We find ourselves picking and choosing what we have time for with what we enjoy most and pursuing those interests. After all, there are only twenty-four hours in a day. And some would say, life gets in the way. Yes, it is complicated, especially for young people with children. Life is hard enough, but trying to live life without a commitment to God is not going to work. You will find life even more frustrating, and you will begin to run around in circles losing motivation even in those things important to you.

Solomon, the wisest man who ever lived, was instructed by his father King David to get to know God intimately. David told his son to worship and serve God with a whole heart and a willing mind. This is one hundred percent commitment. With every ounce of Solomon’s being he was to worship and serve his God. David let Solomon know that God saw his heart and would know every plan and thought he had. God knows each of our hearts and every thought in our minds. He knows us intimately and He wants us to know Him intimately and to worship and serve Him with our whole hearts and with a willing mind. So, let’s get motivated.